Poetry; Paperback; Pages: 28; Published 1981
The Rosace in a Star Chamber by David Omer Bearden
Limited edition chapbook of 13 poems. Some of the poems in this book saw previous publications in Fux, Telephone, Out Of Sight, Underground Telegram, and Love Lights.
A Lover's Plea
Just help me live undeceived
where the flying one
eternally dominates the crone,
or kiss my ass beneath a tree,
for I am sick of love.
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About the Author
David Omer Bearden is the surviving brother of twins born in the desert town of Blythe, CA in 1940. He dedicated his creative life to writing poetry, starting from the post-Beat era, until he passed away in 2008 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1958-1962 he studied English Literature at the University of Tulsa, where he discovered the writings of the “Beats” and began publishing his own poems in numerous literary magazines and journals. Bearden published three poetry chapbooks of his own: So Long at the Fair & Down at the Palomino Club & Other Poems, 1976, The Rosace in a Star Chamber, 1981, and Redress, 1983. He edited and published anthologies Le Feu Du Ciel, 1965, and Smoking Mirrors, 1974, as well as Dominion, a collection of poems by Alan Russo in 1977. A novel titled The Thing In Packy Innard’s Place was the last manuscript he completed in 2007. He is known as the “Apocalypse Rose.”
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